The topical news quiz 96
Posted on
June 11, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Your first question, Ian Murray: who is the First Minister and leader of the SNP?
Ooh, sorry, zero points.
Archive for the ‘wtf’
Someone tell us the rules 135
Posted on
May 18, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The King Of Wishful Thinking 150
Posted on
May 17, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Something to hide 86
Posted on
April 21, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Alert readers may recall our last foray into Freedom Of Information requests, when a couple of weeks ago we belatedly received a peculiarly evasive response from Police Scotland with regard to a meeting in February between the then-Chief Constable, Deputy Chief Constable and the justice secretary Keith Brown.
We duly followed it up with an FOI to the Scottish Government for Keith Brown’s official diary on that day – just about the most mundane, run-of-the-mill request possible. We expected nothing remarkable, just a short list of meetings, fully corroborating what we were told by Police Scotland.
What we got was rather more intriguing.
The Party’s Over 399
Posted on
April 09, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
On a day like today, all an honest person can really do with the Scottish National Party is make like Pontius Pilate and wash their hands of it.
Because there ain’t no resurrection from this.
Humza’s Sneaky Peek 85
Posted on
March 24, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Wait what now?
And how would he know that, exactly?
Spinning the wheel 439
Posted on
March 22, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve been thinking about it since last night, and we’re not sure if Humza Yousaf now still has ANY of the policies he started the leadership election with.
But this one‘s got us extra-specially perplexed, since at the start it was pretty much the main unique selling point he was hanging his whole campaign on.
Maybe you can help us out, readers.
Fantasy Island 202
Posted on
March 21, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Rogue Trooper 129
Posted on
March 16, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Hats off to the SNP. Every time we think that the party’s leadership election can’t get any more absurdly farcical, they pull something extra-mad out of the bag.
After this happened yesterday, it suddenly become “known” across the Scottish media that the SNP NEC was going to hold an extraordinary meeting in order to authorise the release of the membership figures after all three candidates demanded them.
Some of the country’s most senior hacks, including BBC Scotland’s Political Editor and the editor of the Daily Record, sombrely informed their readers of the development.
Only trouble was, nobody had told the SNP NEC.
There Are No Rules 82
Posted on
March 16, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
This is the SNP members’ website tonight.
Looks like anything goes, folks.
The Gauntlet 149
Posted on
March 15, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Well, this has set the cat amongst the pigeons.
Because the SNP leadership election is now a full-blown four-alarm skip fire.
The Thin Pink Line 278
Posted on
February 26, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The charity LGBT Youth Scotland is currently the subject of a live police investigation over its involvement in a second major child-abuse scandal in little over a decade.
So you’d expect Police Scotland to be taking that pretty seriously, right?
